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Virginia, Co. Cavan
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Mrs Farelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 213

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  1. The Leprechaun (continued)

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  2. The Mermaid

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    There is supposed to be a mermaid in Mullagh lake. There was a girl living between Mullagh and Virginia. One day as she was walking along the shores of the lake she was pulled under the water by a mermaid.
    A mermaid is a creature in which the upper part of her is a human being and the lower part a fish. When she was a few days from home her people began to be worried.
    After a while she appeared to the brother that and told him that every night she and the big mermaid comes up out of the water and walks round but there is a few others always around her afraid she would go away.
    She told him to go down to the
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